Following last year's Digital Services Act, which targeted abuse on social media, comes the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which went into effect on March 7 and has the much broader goal of combating unfair competition and preventing market dominance by so-called digital 'gatekeepers,' a who's who of Internet behemoths, from Alphabet and Apple to Meta, Microsoft and TikTok.
The legislation is complicated but, in general, platforms designated as 'gatekeepers' are required to take proactive steps to ensure their services treat competitors fairly and to allow customers to pick and choose among digital services, whatever hardware or operating system they are using.
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